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Jean Merrill’s “The Pushcart War,” published in 1964, is an exceptionally odd children’s book. I don’t mean just that it does without vampires, magic, futuristic dystopian overlords, or any of the other trendy kid-lit staples of the moment. Merrill, who died two years ago, does something rarer and more interesting: she does almost entirely without children. Kids, tweens, teens, young adults: they appear only briefly, and always at the plot’s far edges. This may not sound all that radical, but can you name another children’s book, from any era, with adult protagonists? Can you name two?
Merrill’s main characters are pushcart peddlers in New York City. Their enemies are the big trucking companies, who want the roads cleared. Traffic is getting too heavy, and their trucks aren’t making deliveries as fast as they would like. For the trucking executives, the solution is obvious: get everything but trucks off the roads. The pushcarts are their first target, the opening salvo in a campaign to rule the streets of Manhattan. On orders from above, truck drivers start nudging pushcarts off the street, sometimes even smashing them. “The Pushcart War” is the story of the cart venders’ decision to fight back: they blow out truck tires with peashooters, lie to the police about it, stop traf
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The Pushcart War
1964 children's novel by Jean Merrill
The Pushcart War is a popular children's novel by the American writer Jean Merrill, illustrated by Ronni Solbert[1] and first published by W. R. Scott in 1964. It is Merrill's best known work.[1] The story is written in the style of a historical report from the future, looking back at the events of a "war" that occurred a decade earlier on the streets of New York City between trucking companies and pushcart owners who use pea shooters as weapons to disrupt the trucks.
Development and publication history
[edit]Merrill said the idea for the novel brewed in her for several years while she lived in Greenwich Village.[1] She said the truck traffic there was oppressive and she fantasized about flattening the tires out with pea shooters.[1] She had an epiphany, realizing that "what you feel about the trucks is what everybody feels about bullies," and from there she began writing the novel.[1]
Several characters were based on real-life friends and people. Solbert recalled that when she and Merrill were living in the East Village in the early 1960s on 10th Street near Tompkins Square Park, the New York City Parks Department proposed to cut down trees and remove tables